
Introduction

opening paragragh

1.1 Motivation

1.2 Overview and Objectives

1.3 Related work

1.4 Contributions
	Include some discussion on the results
	Explain the novelty Add some discussion on the work
	Summarize publications

1.5 Limitations & Future work

1.6 Organization of this thesis

Biophysical Model of the Heart

* Biological issues to consider while modeling
* Our model - Linear elastodynamics and fibers
* Estimating the Fiber Orientations - ISBI
* Linear Elastic Formulation - M, K, Newmark
* Modeling the active force - CMAME
* Validation 

Octrees 

* Intro and need for adaptive meshing
* Octree and Morton basics
* Octree basic Algos
* Octree construction - points and images
* Balancing octrees
* octree based meshing
* Other parallel issues
* Similarity measures on octrees
* Scalability and Validation
* Appendix: Parallel Sorting 
 